Moving Compass

Artist's StatementMoving Compass Series: This series references a disrupted journey and explores the idea of finding one’s way when life is out of balance and when traditional landmarks and directional clues are difficult to decipher. These pieces refer to theoretical navigational instruments, each one a separate memory, holding a key to the story, the journey and paths taken. The text and imagery fused within the glass disks relate to buoys, depth charts, historical and contemporary compass designs, and planets. The imagery is both engraved and silk screened onto the glass and then fused into a multi-layered composition. The pieces bend in the same direction implying movement.

Artists' BiosKristin Thielking received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from U.W. Madison. Keven Brunett received both his BFA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. They work collaboratively and individually in a variety of materials from the ephemeral to cast iron and have worked together on numerous permanent indoor and outdoor sculptural installations, including the Wisconsin Percent for Art commission: “Source,” for the Lee Sherman Dreyfus State Office Building, Waukesha, WI. Keven and Kristin exhibit their work widely and have attended a number of artist residency programs including the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry residency. Currently, they both teach at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point and are very involved in the development and expansion of the BA/BFA program in sculpture, glass, environmental installation and public art.